prideful
- adjective
- /ˈpraɪd.fəl/
- His prideful attitude made it difficult for him to accept any form of criticism.
- prideful self
This is where you get prideful and I was wrong.
- This is where you get prideful and I was wrong.
- The attack is prideful, and they don't realistically evaluate their own capacities.
- That's what that's when that prideful shit when you, when you want to, you know, flex your authority.
- So the prideful who are always lifting themselves up were pressed down by great rocks.
- But in this case, it's a setting oneself up above others and then thereby falling below others who are not themselves prideful.
- The freaks and the prideful, the beaks and the ifals.
- But he's also going to tell, tell him that he shouldn't be prideful that here we go.
Examples
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I'm sure you mean well, but your entire comment is prideful and arrogant.
Blog text (8) -
Then he stepped aside in a way that was both prideful and self-mocking.
Fiction book (1993) -
Maybe he will stop being so prideful and consider the truth at some point.
Blog text (28) -
The Society is not prideful enough to try to add to it.
Blog text (6) -
To think I can say anything that can convince anybody is prideful on my part.
Blog text (33) -
So the prideful who are always lifting themselves up were pressed down by great rocks.
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And the Elder says, "Sir, I know you're old, but that is no excuse for being prideful."
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It's that he became stubborn and prideful and mistakes his stubbornness for principle.
Blog text (5) -
Don't be so prideful.
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I bet you don't even realize how prideful and arrogant you are and how you constantly act, like you're too good to be here.
Synonyms
Behaving as if you are more important or better than other people
A person who feels too pleased with themselves in a way that annoys others
Being proud and trying to control other people
Thinking you are much better than other people
Seeing yourself as much more important than other people
Acting proud and looking down on other people
Acting like you are better than others and expecting them to obey you
Showing that you think someone or something is not worth respect
Being too proud of achievements or skills in a way that annoys others
Acting as if you are better than other people
To act very confident and proud to get attention
Being too proud and too sure of yourself so you ignore advice and make bad decisions
Thinking you are more important than other people
Being very pleased with yourself and showing it in a loud, showy way
Showing too much pride after a win that annoys others
Acting as if you are better than other people
Acting very proud and treating others as unimportant
Thinking you are better than other people
Believing you are better than other people and acting like it
Antonyms
How Arrogant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prideful comes from the simple word pride, like the everyday word proud. Imagine someone holding their head very high and looking down on others. That's why prideful can mean 'arrogant' or 'thinking you are better than others'.